Social Worker II - LMSW, Temp to Perm Contract - Geriatrics
Northwell Health
About The Position
Provides individual, and/or group work services to patients and/or their families in various health care settings. Utilizes psychosocial assessment skills to deliver social work services.
Requirements
- Master of Social Work required
- Current License to practice as a Master Social Worker, or Current License to practice as a Clinical Social Worker in New York State required, plus specialized certifications as needed
- 1-3 years of relevant experience, required (Discharge planning, coordination of services, home visits, hospital transition, calling caregivers.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with dementia a plus
Responsibilities
- Provides culturally competent direct service to patients and their families using a variety of social work modalities in order to help individuals maximize their functioning
- Utilizes high risk criteria and/or consultation referrals to identify patients in need of or who could benefit from social work assessment and intervention.
- Advocates on behalf of the individual to ensure maximum access to health care, assesses barriers and offers solutions
- Provides interdisciplinary team with assessment findings and suggests potential impact on overall care of patient
- Provides psycho education, counseling, and crisis intervention to patients and their families
- Formulates and implements treatment and discharge plans that are safe and timely and in line with the expectations of the site and promote patient choice.
- Initiates communication with post-acute providers and payers as needed
- Incorporates knowledge of community resource sand entitlement programs in all planning
- Maintains appropriate professional patient care documentation as defined by site policies and procedures
- Represents department and profession is various hospital/site based committees and work groups
- May assign and monitor undergraduate and graduate level Social Work students; assigns cases to students and monitors work through weekly supervisory meetings; writes all required evaluations of students field placement performance
- Consults with program management regarding students training program, progress, development, and placement experience; meets with students faculty advisor at prescribed intervals
- Performs related duties as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
